Karnal
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Frank wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 2:42pm: Karnal wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 1:39pm: Frank wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 1:25pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 1:08pm: Frank wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 12:46pm: MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 12:27pm: Frank wrote on Dec 24 th, 2022 at 11:37am: Why exactly is this war happening? What would have been the greater calamity it was calculated to prevent? What will it achieve? For the greater glory of Mother Russia. The metonymic archetype of Russia as a mother is bone-deep in the Russian psyche and, as far as Russians are concerned, Ukrainians have spat in their mother's face by rejecting her and turning to the west. And for that adolescent idiotic national pride thousands must die, starve, freeze, suffer, be homeless, displaced, raped, tortured, maimed. When the war is over what will be better? Will Russia be prouder of itself and.... er..... that's it? That's worth it in their minds? In the 90s I had a Russian student who wanted to go to Serbia to 'fight with his brothers' against whoever the Serbs were fighting. I told him not to be an idiot, the Serbs were not his 'brothers'. He looked at me incomprehending. Then I remembered that 80 years before the Russians sided with their Serbian brothers and WWI was on. For ancient social sensibilities, countless millions over centuries have died, starved, frozen, suffered, made homeless, been displaced, raped, tortured, and maimed. And it's not for any frivolous reason that Serbia backs Russia in this war. Serbia is the Balkan version of Russia. I don't know why they have such a strong affinity when, say, the Czechs and Russians don't. Why the largest country in the world has an abiding inferiority complex is another question. Perhaps size is destiny and they can't imagine being a second-tier power behind the Brits, the French and Germans. They are a bloody bully in their own neighbourhood. Why? They went from the world's second biggest military power to being bankrupted and turned into a minor republic in the space of six months. A KGB agent was given the reins, handed industry and the media over to his old boy friends and created the kind of chest-thumping, propaganda-driven, hierarchical power model of you've been praising for years. You know why, old boy. It's just convenient for you to turn to Nazi racial theory to excuse yourself. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia, no? Grimacing gibberish, paki. Now now, no need to play the race card, dear boy. You've always absolutely never ever been a Putin-fancier. Do you deny it?
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